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Founding DevOps Engineer

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About the Role

As the founding DevOps engineer at a personal AI software company, you'll build and own the operational platform that supports reliable, secure, frequent product releases. You'll work closely with a small engineering team and help establish the infrastructure and practices it will grow on.

What You'll Do

  • Own cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and compute, managing environments through infrastructure as code.

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, gated tests, preview environments, feature flags, and rapid rollback tooling.

  • Design and operate logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems that help identify issues early.

  • Establish on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices, and lead postmortems that drive improvements.

  • Implement security controls including secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging.

  • Track service costs and capacity, plan for traffic growth, and reduce infrastructure waste.

  • Set platform standards and help hire and onboard future infrastructure engineers while staying hands-on.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including production on-call work.

  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi, containers, and orchestration.

  • A track record of building CI/CD and deployment tooling that supports frequent, reliable releases.

  • Experience with observability, incident response, postmortems, cloud accounts, networking, databases, and compute.

  • Strong security fundamentals, including IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and compliance work such as SOC 2.

  • Ability to write TypeScript or Python and read application code, with experience verifying and owning code developed using AI-assisted tools.

  • Experience leading a growing engineering team while remaining technically involved, and hiring or onboarding infrastructure engineers.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.

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